Elmer Gantry is a 1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis. It tells the story of a young, obnoxious, womanizing college athelete who, upon realizing the power and prestige that being a preacher can bring, pursues his "religious" ambitions with relish, contributing to the downfall, even death, of key people around him as the years pass. Although he continues to womanize, is often exposed as a fraud, and frequently faces a complete downfall, Gantry is never fully discredited and always manages to emerge triumphant and to reach ever greater heights of social status. The novel ends as the Rev. Gantry prays for the USA to be a "moral nation" and simultaneously admires the legs of a new choir singer.

Elmer Gantry is also a 1960 film which tells the story of a con man who teams up with a female evangelist to sell religion to small-town America. The film stars a young Burt Lancaster as Gantry, Jean Simmons as Sister Sharon, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, Shirley Jones as Lulu Baines, Patti Page, Edward Andrews, John McIntire, and Chief Tahachee. Adapted by Richard Brooks, who also directed, the movie presents less than 100 pages of the novel, deleting many characters and fundamentally changing the character and actions of female evangelist Sharon Falconer. The film won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Burt Lancaster), Best Supporting Actress (Shirley Jones) and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. It was also nominated for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Best Picture.

Also, Elmer Gantry is listed as the vocal artist for the song "May Be A Price To Pay" on The Alan Parson Project Album The Turn Of A Friendly Card (1980)

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[review] ELMER GANTRY'S VELVET OPERA "Ride a Hustler's Dream" (Psychedelic/Space Rock, 1969) by Matthew T http://tinyurl.com/yzjnmnw
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[review] ELMER GANTRY'S VELVET OPERA "Ride a Hustler's Dream" (Psychedelic/Space Rock, 1969) by Matthew T http://tinyurl.com/yzjnmnw
#threewordsforyou See "Elmer Gantry": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053793/
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#threewordsforyou See "Elmer Gantry": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053793/
Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera - Mary Jane http://youtube.com/watch?v=w0Vye_KDQrs #MusicMonday
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